Tango & Cash

Tango & Cash (1989)

4 mistakes since 15 Jul '20, 11:27

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Audio problem: When Tango takes his first shot at the tanker at the beginning, the guy in the passenger seat says, "Shit!" However, the way his lips move, that can't possibly be what he's saying.

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Continuity mistake: During the brawl in the prison boiler room, Tango hits one of the cons with the hatch of one of the boilers. Tango holds onto the boiler in one shot but not in the next.

Continuity mistake: When you see Conan on the surveillance screen inside the prison, screaming, "Bring them to me!" his hands are at pretty much shoulder level on the bars. But, in the very next shot of him, his hands are much lower on the bars, not even in the shot.

Plot hole: How did Rakeen get off the roof? He was still tied up when Tango and Cash left him there, and nobody would know that he was up there, so nobody would've gone up there to cut him loose. Still, he shows up at Perette's compound all the same.

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Question: At the start, why does Tango empty his gun (of unused cartridges) and reload with different bullets before shooting the tanker? Unless I missed something, it's never explained.

Jon Sandys

Answer: He was doing a combat reload, where you eject all the rounds, spent or not and fill the revolver with new ones. It guarantees six shots, rather than relying on "indexing" where you count every round fired.

stiiggy

That doesn't make any sense since he hadn't fired a single round and the gun was fully loaded.

It's hard to tell, but it does look like there were at least some empty shells that land on the ground. A revolver isn't going to eject spent shells, so there's no way to say it was fully loaded.

Bishop73

Answer: It's not specified, but I would suspect that he changed from a .38 Special to a .357 round or something. You can shoot a .38 Special out of a .357 Magnum gun and maybe for the movie they wanted to add a shot of him doing a reload to a higher power cartridge for the effect. Why anyone with a .357 Magnum gun would routinely carry a .38 Special round is beyond me.

It is common to carry .38 special rounds in a .357 carry revolver to reduce the risk of over penetration and target reacquisition. In a nutshell, .38 is a self defense round while .357 is a hunting or combat round.

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